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Contents:
- A VERY LGBTQ : GAY MARRIAGE, TRANS RIGHTS AND A 'RABOW WAVE'
- 'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE
- GAY WAVE
A VERY LGBTQ : GAY MARRIAGE, TRANS RIGHTS AND A 'RABOW WAVE'
NBC Out reflects on the major legal, cultural, and historic LGBTQ events of the 2010 , cludg the legalizatn of gay marriage and DADT repeal. * the gay wave *
At the dawn of the year 2010, few Amerins uld predict that the g would revolutnize the legal and cultural landspe for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people. After all, was only 2003 that homosexualy was crimalized across the untry, thanks to a landmark Supreme Court the past 10 years, the Uned Stat saw the natnwi legalizatn of same-sex marriage, the emergence of transgenr rights as the central ontier the LGBTQ rights battle and the troductn of PrEP to fight the HIV epimic.
-2010-'Don’t ask, don’t tell' repeal signed to lawFollowg through on a mpaign promise, Print Barack Obama on December 22, 2010, signed the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell, ” the 1994 Clton admistratn policy that banned ary service by openly gay people.
DADT was a promise after Clton failed to liver on a 1992 mpaign promise to allow gay and lbian Amerins to jo the ary.
'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE
* the gay wave *
Hillary Clton: 'Gay rights are human rights'In an echo of her inic 1995 speech Beijg as First Lady, where she clared that "human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights, " Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clton livered a speech on Dec. 6, 2011, to the Uned Natns clarg, "Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights. "-2012-Bin announc support for gay marriageAhead of Print Obama's wily telegraphed "evolutn" on same-sex marriage, Vice Print Joe Bin a May 2012 appearance on NBC News' "Meet the Prs" announced that he was "absolutely fortable" wh same-sex approv Tvada as HIV PrEPTvadaAnthony Correia / NBC NewsIn July 2012, the Food and Dg Admistratn approved Tvada as HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, to prevent HIV acquisn high-risk dividuals, particularly gay men and transgenr women.
GAY WAVE
In 1998, when she was elected to the Hoe of Reprentativ, she beme the first gay woman and the first openly LGBTQ noncumbent elected to eher chamber of Congrs.
C., and the 12 stat where gay marriage was then legal. Supreme Court lg legaliz gay marriageCg s 2013 cisn that overturned the Defense of Marriage Act, the Supreme Court the landmark June 2015 Obergefell v. Hodg cisn found a nstutnal right to marriage that clud same-sex upl, legalizg gay marriage natnwi.
In a subsequent trial of the shooter's wife, tails emerged showg that the gay club Pulse was chosen randomly after heterosexual clubs appeared to be too securely mak Stonewall a Natnal MonumentThe still-nng New York Cy gay bar beme the first Natnal Park Service-operated natnal monument dited to LGBTQ rights on June 24, 2016.